2017 Global Open Water Swimming Conference In Tunisia Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The first Global Iron Swim in Tunisia will be held with the 2017 Global Open Water Swimming Conference and the WOWSA Awards this September at the coastal Bizerte Resort Hotel in Tunisia. Majdouline Cherni, Minister of Youth and Sports of Tunisia,
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After Nejib Belhedi's nationally televised 22-ton boat pulling World Iron Swim Series (Nage de Fer) in the Port El Kantaoui at Hammam Sousse in Tunisia, he was celebrated by Tunisian celebrities and government representatives. He also received a very cool Iron Swim trophy to commemorate his unprecedented
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nejib Belhedi completed another one even of his World Iron Swim series in the Gulf of Gabès in eastern Tunisia on July 31st. In the Gulf of Gabès, Belhedi started and finished at Limaoua Hamrouni Beach, a total of 21 km with a loop where he swam 11 km to Limaya Beach at the Al Zarat Port. The out-and-back
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While Nejib Belhedi is most renowned for his channel and marathon swims including his most recent 15 km marathon swim in 7 hours 17 minutes, he is not known for his comeback from open heart surgery in 2005. In a military hospital in Tunis, Belhedi’s doctors took a vein in his right leg to replace his
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Over the next few generations, the Kerkennah - Sfax Channel swim will not be possible. For various reasons, the Kerkennah Islands are expected to disappear by the year 2050. The population of the islands has significantly decreased since the 1980s. Additionally, with clean water rapidly running out, many
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ouma is an Arabic word meaning "swim in the sea", a concept that Nejib Belhedi is pushing constantly in Tunisia. Belhedi's Ouma initiative is his means to encourage people in Tunisia, especially the children, to begin and enjoy swimming in the sea. "I want the younger population in Tunisia to get back to
On June 2nd on Athenée Beach in Djerba, Tunisia, Nejib Belhedi organized an Ouma event. 450 children and teenagers as well as representatives from the United Kingdom, Italy, Malta, Tunisia, and Libya took part in the Swim of Peace Ouma - Djerba. Meanwhile, a sister swim of ouma was held on the same day in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa. At the invitation of
Adam Walker is raising money for a variety of environmental causes (Sportsaid and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society) while venturing around the world on the Oceans Seven challenge. With the English Channel (solo in 2008 and relays in 2007 and 2008), the Molokai Channel (2012), a two-way crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar, and the Catalina Channel
He pulled off a brilliantly tactical marathon swim that played to his strengths at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Tunisian 3-time Olympic medalist Oussama Mellouli was apparently ready to ride off into the sunset as one of the greatest long distance freestylers of all time, but it was not to be. In his post-Olympic glory, Mellouli got a little more taste
After his ice swim for an hour in 3ºC (37ºF) water at the Sidi Saad Dam in Jedliane (Kasserine) last month, Nejib Belhedi stepped up yet again in his native land of Tunisia. "Yesterday, I swam 6 km from the bank of the Mallegue Dam to Dream Island and back near the Algerian border. It took 2 hours in the 5ºC (41ºF) water. The swim was televised by Nessma
